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The Top Five Utterly Embarrassing White Girl Rap Songs

Kreashawyn's "Gucci Gucci" is blowing up. The video to the song from the Bay Area-raised female rapper, which features cameos from members of Odd Future, is on track to top over a million YouTube views since its release last week. It's a high point in Kreashawyn's short career so far, as she attempt ... More >>

MS-13 Gang Members Plead Guilty to RICO Charges Before Upcoming Trial

Gang Busters​A Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member involved in a drive-by shooting pled guilty this week to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Wilbert "Cypress" Castillo, 29, admitted Tuesday he's been an MS-13 member since 2004.  He confessed that he agreed wit ... More >>

Cash Register Thefts: Foolish Criminals Plague San Francisco

Criminals' rule of thumb: Take the cash. Leave the register. ​Following a cash register theft on the 100 block of Chenery over the weekend and one at 301 Rolph in mid-October, yesterday's cash register heist in the 4700 block of Mission marks a trend. A stupid trend. Captain Louis Cassanego of the ... More >>

Recent Openings

Hot Sandwiches, Cold Treats, and Another Monkey: The Week in Restaurant Openings

Jun BelenElizabeth Falkner (center), tasting the wares at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous.​The biggest opening news was the arrival last Friday of Dogpatch ice cream emporium Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous, which Jun Belen reported on (complete with Elizabeth Falkner sighting). This morning saw the muc ... More >>

Recent Openings

Beijing BBQ in the Excelsior Sells Aromatic Lamb Skewers

Jonathan KauffmanFrom lower left to upper right: Lamb, beef, chicken.​The twin olfactory flares of cumin and lamb smoke signal the locations of night markets all across Beijing. There, in addition to the sesame-paste noodles and pork buns, you'll find Muslim-run grill stands selling lamb skewers c ... More >>

Police Target Wrong Man -- But That's Okay. He's Carrying Drugs.

​Everything came up roses yesterday for a pair of police officers who busted the wrong man in the Excelsior. Actually, it came up bud -- and not rosebud -- but the effect is much the same. The cops saw a man who "closely resembled a wanted subject" tooling around in the unit block (that's 1-100 fo ... More >>

Filipino Sweet Beat: Hilda's Mart and Bake Shop

T. PalmerUbe puto: Steamed purple yam and rice cakes.​We had barely come down from our dizzying sugar high from checking out Filipino sweets at House of Silvanas in Daly City when we discovered Hilda's Mart and Bake Shop (145 Persia at Paris) in the Excelsior, which bakes completely different swee ... More >>

"One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran"

One Day reveals Iran's gridlock and anxiety

Have Boris-and-Natasha Lottery Ticket Scammers Struck Again?

Have they bilked another San Francisco woman?Earlier on this page, we wrote about a very short man and taller woman who allegedly bilked an old  woman out of $10,000 in a bogus lottery ticket scam. It seems last week was a good one for male-female teams to con too-trusting San Francisco ladies ... More >>

San Francisco's Explosion of the Weekend Wasn't Made-For-TV Blast -- It Was This Brazen Tenderloin Arson

This weekend, all the cameras -- professional, amateur, and NBC -- were pointed at the I-280 onramp, where a big rig was rigged to burst into flames for the S.F.-centric TV drama Trauma.The results were impressive. But they cannot touch, with an exploding, 10-foot pole, the bizarre arson and vehicul ... More >>

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Call Him Al

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House Of Tudor

Sleazy Parisian electro, noirish Australian folk-rock, and intoxicating Turkish world beat

Grace Under Pressure

In Monsters of Grace, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson may have created theater for the next century. Not easily, of course.

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